Boy Writes To Barack Obama

Years before the world came to know him as the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama was just a boy sending intense (his word) love letters to his college girlfriend. And no, it wasn't the woman he eventually married, Michelle Obama. The letters were addressed to his then-girlfriend, Alexandra McNear. Nine of the handwritten love letter...

For many of us, the images of 5-year-old Omran Daqneesh, injured, ashen and bewildered after an airstrike in Aleppo last month, crystallized the horror of Syria's civil war. It made us wonder, again, how that horror might be stopped.

Years before the world came to know him as the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama was just a boy sending intense (his word) love letters to his college girlfriend. And no, it wasn't the woman he eventually married, Michelle Obama. The letters were addressed to his then-girlfriend, Alexandra McNear. Nine of the handwritten love letter...

For many of us, the images of 5-year-old Omran Daqneesh, injured, ashen and bewildered after an airstrike in Aleppo last month, crystallized the horror of Syria's civil war. It made us wonder, again, how that horror might be stopped.